Permission

Permission.... what a heavy flash fiction. It's almost too quick to get emotionally attached but it got to me anyway.   A man who lost both his wife, child and himself due to some tragedy that left them dead.  Still had to find a way to live for his two surviving children.  He became an overbearing and almost crazed.  Adamant about being apart of every inch of their lives.  Too afraid that something may happen and he would lose them as well.  Aware of his pain and suffering the children's headmistress was very passive of his random acts.  She understood that his acts weren't thought out but outburst of his emotions; reactions of his loss.  Although his wife and one of his child were not physically there he keeps them in his every thought.  And it seemed to me that at the end of this piece he was looking for permission from his dead wife and child to move on with his life.